I'm in the process of finalising a family cookbook which we'll publish privately through Lulu.com. I wanted to see what their paper, printing and binding quality was, so as a trial I've just published a book of 45 of my photos taken on my iPhone using the Hipstamatic app. The book quality is excellent and the photos don't look too bad!
Photos of food, scenery, wineries, our garden, art exhibitions and other stuff.
Of course this is short-run digital publishing so it isnt cheap. For a hard-cover photo or recipe book, we're talking $25 before you start to add pages. Then its 25c a page. Then you have to pay freight. So the cookbooks won't be cheap, but they will be 'family heirlooms'...
Anyway, I'm pretty pleased with my little example of vanity publishing...
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